My heel spurs are back. I know it’s because I increased my treadmill time. I’m taking an off day today, and going to ice my food down most of the day and hoping it will go away.
I know my dog agility runs didn’t help, though we were on grass. It was a fabulous dog agility weekend. I ran both dogs and the trial was scheduled for Friday and Saturday only.
This was an USDAA trial, which has been extremely frustrating for me. Marcie either makes one mistake which wouldn’t count in AKC, or is over time, which is shorter than AKC time. (For the non-dog agility person, there are several dog agility venues with different rules and different ideas, for us AKC is the easiest).
On Friday night, Marcie started out the evening with a 1st in Gamblers. USDAA has games, in Gamblers, you get as many points in the opening, a buzzer sounds (or a whistler), and you have a fixed amount of time to get a “gamble”. It’s basically a set of obstacles where you have to stay behind a line and the dog has to get it right by verbal commands. Marcie Qed, getting enough points in the opening AND getting the gamble.
Marcie was also clean in Standard, but .6 seconds over time. ARGH! She took a second.
Maggie got distracted, and went off course once, and came in second. That was Maggie’s best course at that point, she’s only competed about 4 trials.
Saturday was even better. Marcie and I played Snooker. It works like the pool game, I think. There are 3 red jumps, and a small course. You take a red jump, take part of the course, red, another part, etc. Then when you finish that part, you take the course. Marcie took a 1st place in that compeition and Q’ed.
Standard runs were both clean with both dogs, but both were over time. They both had trouble with the weaves and Marcie had trouble with the table.
Marcie had a final jumpers run, which was real fun for both as there are no weaves or table to mess us up. She ran clean and in time, taking another 1st and Qing.
So our total was:
Marcie had 3 Q’s, and got 3 1st places, and 2 2nd places.
Maggie had 2 second places.
It definately means that I’m running better, even with the heel pain.